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Letter "P" » possession
«Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.»
Author: Barbara De Angelis
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formidable, invisible, in a moment, material, material possession, measured, offer, possession, transform
«Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.»
«I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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brood, brooded, broods, loveliness, luxuries, possession, walks
«Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.»
«Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.»
«One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.»
Author: Sophocles
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possession
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«Possessions are usually diminished by possession.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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diminished, possession, possessions, usually
«Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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according, Act of, act upon, arbitrarily, Born Free, classes, Equal rights, exclusive, exercised, granted, lay, laying on of hands, lay hands on, legitimate, monopolize, monopolized, possess, possession, principles, sexes, sex act, sight, slaves, unjust
«Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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consist, made, made use of, possession, riches, treasures, use
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